12.31.06: New Year's Dream
A benefit featuring burlesque, beats & endless champagne

A collaboration between The Pleasure Corporation, TheDanger, and Gemini & Scorpio
 
The Experience:
 
This is the New Years you dream of. We've taken over three floors of a downtown Manhattan brownstone/cabaret club and built out a plush dreamscape of seductive performance, intoxicating beats, cozy corners and a massive midnight spectacle of drums, acrobatics and endless bottles of champagne. Expect the decadence of French Quarter New Orleans spiked with the opulence of a New York City speakeasy.
 
In the Room of Dreams:
 
DJ Rich Medina breathes, and revels in sharing the type of music that makes a listener remember his soul. Experience this world-renowned music flavor connecting the dots between hip-hop, afro-beat, and bass heavy future soul.
 
Swingsett of Ism Records plays through the universal language of hip-hop tinged drum-and-bass, while Adam Matta brings the dreamy beats guaranteed to bring back memories of funk infused Brooklyn block parties.
 
At midnight the mass spectacle turns wild as the Maracatu drum core joins Akim Funk Buddha in initiating the New Year in a ritualized performance of acrobatic delicacy and carnal intensity. Simultaneously hundreds of bottles of Champagne will be distributed through the crowd while fire spinners and burlesque performers complete the ritual with glamor and decadence that you can taste and touch.
 
In the Cabaret Lounge:
 
Gemini and Scorpio present Vaudeville Cabaret Club, an explosive mix of circus, burlesque, comedy and music, served with an abundance of charm, poetry and wit. Here in New York City for the first time ever, Vaudeville Cabaret Club is a four-star show originating at the legendary Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
 
The Lady Aye of the Pyrate Sisters' All-Girl Sideshow, fabulous fire eater, escape artist and double blockhead, hosts a night of delicious mayhem (and breaks out the world's only corset-shaped bed of nails). Be seduced by the timeless burlesque of Ooh La Luz, the lusciously infamous duo from San Francisco, in New York for one night only. A tantalizing step back into the early 20th century, ribald and classy in equal parts. Be moved by The Ruel String Band, a classic jazz lift-off to clown antics by hilarious Ambrose Martos of Happy Hour Clowns and delightful Poofy du Vey, sweet hoop moves by GrooveHoops, genuine Weimar cabaret sound by Micaela Leon, and very special guest Guitar Boy, vaudevillian guitar god of The Yard Dogs Roadshow, roving entertainment by Lucky and the ritualizer tribe from Boring Incorporated.